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Gallium3D VDPAU State Tracker Gets Ready For Action

02-29-2012, 12:40 AM

Phoronix: Gallium3D VDPAU State Tracker Gets Ready For Action

Christian K?nig of AMD has shared his plans for completing work on the VDPAU state tracker for Gallium3D. This Gallium3D state tracker allows for NVIDIA VDPAU video acceleration using GPU shaders on open-source hardware drivers such as Radeon and Nouveau...

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VDPAU is not only an API for decoding - it also includes a presentation API that is much, much more powerful than Xv. These commits are all about the presentation part of VDPAU. There still is no useful decode acceleration support available.

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Wait what ? Page-flipping / tear free on secondary displays ? Really ? For sure ?
I always thought that there was an limitation in the underlying drivers that prevented this. It'd be awesome to have this (does it also work on secondary cards ?). I'd be grateful for references / comments on this ...